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Zelda and Groose made it back down to the bottom of the volcano, holding their regular clothes as they panted after they got back to their horses. "Did… did we lose them?" Groose asked.

"I… I think so." Zelda panted. "Phew. I think my life flashed before I eyes when I got hugged by him."

"Mmph… same." Groose nodded. "What did they mean by brother and sister?"

"By my guess… we're part of the family." Zelda guessed. "Don't think I can take another hug from them."

"Yeah. So where to next?" Groose asked.

"The Lost Woods. That's where the Power of Farore is at, along with the Master Sword."

"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Groose grinned as they got on their horses. "…Also, you think we can get find someplace to get changed? I don't think we need this anymore."

"Good idea. Let's do it somewhere where I don't have my face plastered on a poster." Zelda suggested with Groose nodding and then both of them took off.


Link walked into the lab. "How's it coming along, my good mad scientist?"

"It's coming along! I've made duplicates already and it's coming along!" The scientist chuckled. "Soon, they'll be prowling along Hyrule in search for that girl."

"Excellent." Link smirked and then noticed something on a table, an elixir with a dull color. "What kind of elixir is that?"

"That? I'd be careful around that if I were you." He warned. "It's completely unstable and I'm trying to perfect it. Right now, I'm not sure what it does, but I tested it on a mouse and it turned into a hairier creature before it ran off. Now I'm not sure where it is."

"When did you test it?"

"About a month ago, when the blood moon rose into the sky." He said. "It had no reaction earlier in the day, but when the blood moon came up, it turned into a nasty little thing and ran off. Nearly took my eye out too!"

"So it reacts to the Blood Moon…" Link mused. "Fascinating."

"I'm trying to counteract it because I'm trying to make the ultimate healing potion that will add a few years to your life, also be immune to any kind of illness that you have… I wonder if I need more Bokoblin eyeballs…"

"Let's not worry about the potion for now, let's just worry about creating these Guardians." He said, then looked down at the elixir. "Hmm…" He mused, seeming fascinated by it. "What did you put in it?"

"I don't remember the ingredients that well." He shrugged. "I wouldn't worry about it, I'll make the best healing potion of all time!" He said.

"If you say so." The king nodded and walked off, seeming mighty intrigued by that elixir.


"Okay, so where is the Lost Woods again?" Groose asked as they walked around.

"It should be around here somewhere." Zelda mused. "Maybe if we go into the forest, we'll find it!"

"And how do you know about that?" Groose asked.

"Uh… lucky guess?" Zelda shrugged sheepishly as they wandered around, unaware of something that was following them.

"You get the feeling someone's following you?" Groose asked.

"Now that I think about it… yes." Zelda said as they turned around but saw nothing. "Weird." She turned back around… only to get knocked off Epona. "Wah!"

"Zelda!" Groose exclaimed.

"Ehehehehe! This horse is mine now!" The figure exclaimed and took off with Epona, but Zelda got back up.

"Hey!" Zelda exclaimed, her hand catching on fire and quickly using Din's Fire to hit the figure directly.

"GAH!" He yelled, the explosion knocking him off of Epona as the horse turned back around and glared at the figure. "Ack! Please don't hurt me!" He exclaimed as he quickly backed up to a tree as Zelda and Groose walked up to him.

"Oh, it's just a Skull Kid." Groose said.

"Skully!" A voice exclaimed as they saw two fairies approaching them, one light and one dark red. "What have we said about stealing people's horses?"

"I'm so sorry!" The Skull Kid, Skully, exclaimed. "I just wanted to play some harmless pranks!" He said.

"Without this?" The dark red fairy asked, pulling out a creepy looking mask.

"Oh, I was wondering where that was." He said and put it on.

"…I'm getting bad vibes with that mask." Groose said. "Like, "a moon falling onto Hyrule" bad vibes."

"Eh? Why would I do that?" Skully asked. "The goddesses took away all the bad power from Majora, so now it's just a regular mask that lets me use psychic energy. I mean, really, all I'd do is do this." He said, snapping his fingers as Groose started floating in the air.

"Huh?!" He asked and then was launched high in the air. "AAAAAH!"

"…You're gonna bring him down, right?" Zelda asked.

"Oh, certainly." Skully nodded and then snapped his fingers, as Groose fell to the ground but stopped when he was just about to touch it, then he landed softly on the ground. "I can also mess around with your movement or make you blind for a few seconds. It's all harmless, really!"

"Okay, if you say so." Groose said.

"The last Skull Kid that wore this was definitely a troublemaker though, nearly crushed Hyrule hadn't the goddesses stepped in and reprimanded him, also a guy and a woman came in to stop them… they both had fierce markings on them too, like… oh, what was it, a Fierce Deity… something or other." He explained. "Because of what he did, the goddesses sapped all the evil energy out of it and the only thing that's left is harmless telekinetic energy."

"Harmless?! You could've killed me!"

"Ah, but I didn't! I'm not that cruel."

"He has a point. He seems rather nice." Zelda said and turned to the fairies. "And who are these?"

"Oh! This is Tatl and Tael."

"Nice to meet you!"

"Yo!"

"And I'm Skully! Nice to meet ya!" The Skull Kid greeted, shaking Zelda's hand.

Zelda giggled. "See? He's nice."

"Riiiiight." Groose quietly said with an eye roll.

"So, can you show us where the Lost Woods may be? We're looking for the Forest Temple."

"Oh! I know where it is! It's right this way!" Skully said as the trio guided the duo and their horses to the Lost Woods, where the forest got darker and a few Poes were lurking about, as he made a few twist and turns as the duo made their way around until they eventually made it to the Forest Temple, where they noticed it got lighter when they reached the area. "This forest is my home, so I know my way around the place!"

Zelda noticed a passageway toward the left of the temple. "Where does that lead?"

"That leads to Kokiri Village and Ordon Village, it's also where you'll find the Great Deku Tree. Really nice guy!" Skully walked off. "Take care!" He said and walked off.

"Told you he's nice." Zelda told him.

"I still don't trust him." Groose said as they walked toward the Forest Temple, hopping off their horses and seeing that the entrance was a bit too high. "Oh, that's inconvienent." He muttered. "Luckily, there's vines to climb up!"

Zelda pulled out her Clawshot and then aimed at a target just above the door and shot herself up. "Or just use this!" She said, tossing it down to him as he caught it.

"That works too!" He said as he used it and then shot up next to Zelda, then gave it back to her.

"Thanks." Zelda giggled as they walked right into the Forest Temple.

As soon as they walked in, a Skulltula dropped down from the ceiling and attempted to scare the two, but Zelda burned it alive with Din's Fire as it dropped down. "I love this spell!" Zelda giggled as they walked through the hallway where they walked through the door and found that it led outside into a gigantic courtyard full of flowers, vines, and streams with a small waterfall.

"It's so pretty!" Zelda beamed as they walked around the courtyard, when a few Deku Babas attempted to come and snap at them, but Groose cut them down.

"Nice try." Groose smirked as Zelda spotted a door near a bridge as she walked towards it and then walked in with Groose behind her as they walked down a corridor until they came across a wall covered in vines as they both started climbing up and then pulled themselves up onto a ledge and went into another door where they saw a walkway with a stream of water going by, as a few Octorocks attempted to shoot them, but Zelda used Nayru's Love to bounce the rocks back to them, knocking them out.

"Ouch, use their own weapon against them." Groose chuckled as they kept walking and went to the left to go further into the corridor until another walkway showed up on the other side of the steam as a wall blocked them from using the rest of the walkway they were on, forcing them to hop over.

"Is it me, or is the walkway getting smaller?" Groose wondered as they kept walking, which Zelda noticed the walkway was indeed getting smaller.

"Your eyes aren't deceiving you." Zelda said as they soon made it to a door just before they'd fall into the water.

As they went into the room, they noticed a door that was barred shut and there was an eye on the wall. "That's a bit creepy." Groose said, and then a Stalfos landed on the ground, glaring at the duo.

"And that's a bit creepier." Zelda said, unsheathing her rapier while Groose pulled out his sword, then the two ran toward the Stalfos, slashing it but it blocked with it's shield and countered with a powerful swing, but Groose blocked it with his sword while Zelda briefly used Nayru's Love to protect herself.

"Stay behind me, Zelda! I'll take care of bonehead here!" Groose smirked.

"Got it!" Zelda said as Groose and the Stalfos went to swinging at each other, their swords clashing numerous times and then the Stalfos attempted to disarm him but Groose rolled to the side and attacked it from behind a few times, forcing the Stalfos to jump back and growled at Groose.

"What's the matter, you spooky skeleton? Afraid of a measly Hylian?" Groose taunted as the Stalfos charged at him, attempting to shield bash him, but he jumped back at the right time and then he ran forward and swung at it, but the Stalfos blocked the attack, only for Groose to go for a low attack to the knee, causing the Stalfos to rattle in pain, and then the Stalfos used his good leg to kick Groose back.

"Ooof!" He grunted as he nearly fell over but caught himself, then he attacked the Stalfos a few more times and then rolled behind him when the Stalfos swung down, and then Groose swung his sword up, knocking the Stalfos down and then he leapt forward, putting his foot on the Stalfos and then impaling its backside to finish it off, disappearing a few seconds later.

"Whoa..." Zelda whispered in amazement. "That was so cool!"

Groose chuckled. "Ah, it was nothin'." He said, and then a chest fell from the ceiling, as the two walked over and Zelda opened it up, pulling out two bow and arrows. "Heeeeey!" Groose grinned. "One for each of us!"

Zelda looked at the eye and then put an arrow into the bow, aiming directly at the eye and fired... only for it to hit the door instead. "Oops." She said and fired another arrow, hitting above the eye, the on the left, then one just fell to the floor and one to the right of the eye.

"Have you ever fired a bow before?" Groose asked.

"Not really..." Zelda blushed a little.

"Watch and learn." Groose said, aiming his bow at the eye, pulled it back and then shot it, hitting the eye in one try as the door opened. "I did a lot of target practice at home." Groose grinned.

"Show off." Zelda muttered, causing Groose to laugh at this as they walked through the door, coming across another courtyard where they saw a patch of flowers, a pond, a waterfall, some butterflies flying around the area, and a door that had another target above a door. "I got this!" She said, pulling out her bow and fired an arrow, only to miss and hit a butterfly instead, pinning it to a wall. "Eeep! Sorry, little guy!"

"Congratulations, you killed a butterfly." Groose sarcastically said and then fired an arrow, hitting the mark as the door opened up. They walked in, though Zelda offered up a small prayer for the butterfly that she accidentally killed and walked in with Groose.

As they walked into a large room, they saw a door on the top of a ledge, but noticed that a ladder wasn't there, so they walked around the room and saw a series of small ledges for them to climb up on as they hopped along the ledges but saw that one of them was occupied by a Lizalfos, who was currently sleeping on the job, casually leaning on the wall and snoring. "Well, this is easy." Groose said and then stabbed it on the head to destroy it easily. "…Hmm, think it would be a lot funnier if this Lizalfos was some sleepy warrior that's a gatekeeper for a mansion, my sword was a dagger, and it screams every time I stab it in the forehead."

"That's oddly specific." Zelda said as they hopped across the ledges to get to the door and walked inside, then going into another corridor that had some Bubbles going around but Groose and Zelda quickly destroyed them before entering another courtyard, but this time, it was strangely quiet with no insects, a stream was completely dried up with no waterfalls pouring, the flowers were dead and the foliage was decimated.

"I think we found our target." Groose said.

"Yup." Zelda nodded as they took out their weapons.

"Alright, we can do this two ways. We can do this the easy way or the hard way!" Groose called out and then chuckled. "I've always wanted to say that!" He said while Zelda rolled her eyes.

"…Who are you…?"

Zelda and Groose looked at each other and quickly circled around each other, looking around the entire courtyard. "Show yourself!"

"…You look like playmates… have you come to play with me…?"

"Uh, define playing…"

"…I haven't had a playmate in a long time… the last one didn't last long…"

"What do you mean by that?" Zelda asked as Groose noticed something in the dried up stream, as his eyes widened.

"Zelda… look into the stream."

Zelda looked in, and noticed there were a lot of skeletons in there. "Oh my goodness!"

"…My other playmates never played well… they always ended up… limp…"

"Will you just show yourself already!" Groose yelled.

"…I wonder if you'll end up the same… so let's play… but I have one condition…"

"What would that be?" Zelda asked, as a creature appeared before them, looking completely wooden and puppet-like. It had claws for hands, it had black markings on its face and a slasher smile, it had dark green eyes as some propellers were on its back. It looked limp at first… before its eyes glowed red and snapped its head forward at the two.

"…YOU HAVE TO PLAY NICE…"

The puppet quickly slashed at the duo, forcing them to dodge the attacks as Zelda's hand caught on fire and used Din's Fire, but the puppet moved its body in a ragdoll-ish way to avoid the Din's Fire as it exploded behind it, and then it aimed directly at Zelda and slashed at her, but she blocked it with her rapier, struggling against the puppet but then it slashed it off of her and went to slash her, but she used Nayru's Love to have the claw attack bounce off and then she grabbed the rapier and attempted to stab it, but it blocked the stabs with ease.

Groose saw the propeller on its back, noticing it was keeping it afloat. "Aha…" He mused and then pulled out his bow, aiming at the propeller and shot the first one, making a direct hit as the propeller fell off. The puppet bent its head backwards and let out a loud shriek as it flew directly to Groose and attacked him, forcing him to block with his sword and counter attacked him.

Zelda saw one last propeller on him as it was attacking Groose as she pulled out her bow and nocked an arrow, aiming at the wooden creature, taking a deep breath and released the arrow, as it flew directly to the propeller, causing Zelda to grin. It's going to be a bullseye, she can feel it! The arrow hit the target... but not the target she was aiming for. The arrow actually overshot and hit a wall instead.

Zelda's eye twitched. "Alright, that's it!" She said, pulling out her Clawshot and aimed at the puppet as it knocked down Groose, raising it's arm to deliver the final blow as Zelda fired the Clawshot, making it's mark as it hit the propeller, then she yanked it, pulling it off as the puppet fell to the ground.

However, the puppet got back up and twisted it's head, shrieking and ran at the Hylian, waving it's arms around and striking Zelda, but she blocked it with her rapier. "Alright, that's it! I've had enough of this stupid puppet!" She exclaimed, her hand catching on fire as she put her hand on its chest and unleashed Din's Fire, as the puppet screamed, trying to get the fire off of it but it couldn't as it kept screaming.

"...You don't know how to play nice...!"

"Says the freak show that was flying around!" Groose exclaimed.

"...You... You two... I am going to haunt you for the rest of your days...!"

Zelda glared at the puppet. "Looking forward to it."

The puppet let out one last shriek before it collapsed on the ground, lifeless as the fire started breaking it apart before it turned into ash. "Good riddance." Groose grumbled.

Zelda noticed that a green crystal rose from the ashes as she walked over to it and took it, absorbing it into her body.

"You now have the power of Farore. Farore's Wind. You now have the three powers of the goddesses, however, your journey has just begun. Retrieve the sacred sword in the forest."

Zelda let out a nod and turned to Groose. "Let's go."

"Right." Groose nodded as they walked into the portal and ended up back at the entrance of the temple, where they then walked to the left, where they walked into Ordon Village, where the villagers were going about their day.

"Oh! This is an unexpected surprise." A voice said as they turned to see a young woman approach them. "We don't normally have visitors, so this is an unexpected, yet welcome surprise. What are your names?"

"Zelda."

"The name's Groose!"

"Those are some nice names. My name is Ilia." She said. "What brings you to our village?"

"We're looking for a sacred sword. Do you know where it is?"

"Oh, you mean the Master Sword? I've heard about it... you just go through this forest and you'll get into Kokiri Village. I'll have to warn you though... The gatekeeper in that village tends to be really unfriendly."

"Alright, thanks." Zelda nodded and then walked in the direction that Ilia pointed to with Groose right behind her as they walked through the forest until they came across a small bridge where they walked through and into a tree trunk that would lead them into Kokiri Village.

"Hooooold up a second!" A small Kokiri boy exclaimed. "I'm not letting giants enter our village!" He said. "You can go back to that smelly old dump you call Ordon Village!"

"We need through, and you're not stopping us." Zelda said.

"Ha!" The boy smirked. "You can't get passed old Mido! Do your worst."

Zelda chuckled. "Okay!" She said and closed her eyes, using Farore's Wind to teleport behind Mido.

"Huh?! Where'd you go?"

"Right behind you."

"Wah!" Mido turned around. "How did you do that?!" He asked as Zelda walked away with a giggle. "Hey! Don't walk away from me!" He exclaimed and then turned around to see Groose. "Can you do that?"

"Nope."

"Good, you're not getting passed me." He said, as Groose chuckled and picked up the little guy. "HEY! HEY! PUT ME DOWN! PUT ME DOWN RIGHT THIS INSTANT!"

Groose set him down a few seconds later. "Have fun guarding!" He said and followed Zelda.

"Good, that'll show him." He said and then it dawned on him. "Wait, did he go in too?!"

Inside Kokiri Village, the Kokiri saw the "giants" before them, and instead of running away in fear, they crowded around the two in awe.

"Excuse us, do you know where we can find the Master Sword?" Zelda asked.

"I know where it is!" A voice said as they turned to see a young woman, who is as tall as a Kokiri approached them. "Hello, my name is Saria." She greeted warmly. "I see you got passed Mido. Don't worry about him, he may come off as a cold individual, but he's very soft on the inside."

"I do NOT!" Mido said from afar.

"I can show you where it is." Saria said as the two nodded as they followed Saria through the village and into a narrow passage until they saw the Master Sword resting on a pedestal in front of a large tree. "Great Deku Tree, you have guests."

"Ah, I can see that. Welcome, young ones." The Deku Tree spoke.

"Did that tree just talk?" Groose asked in surprise.

"I have had a vision that two young people would come into this forest, and it looks like you have come. There is a great evil on the horizon and it must be stopped before all of Hyrule perishes. You g lady, you wouldn't happen to be Zelda, would you?"

"That's me."

"Excellent. Now, come forth and retrieve the Master Sword. I must warn you though, those with a pure and noble heart may pull out the sword. Those who don't take a lot of years off their life."

*Understood." Zelda nodded and walked toward the Master Sword and got close to it, taking a deep breath and placed her hands on it, attempting to pull it out but to no avail. She pulled away for a split second to take another deep breath and placed both hands on it, firmly holding it in her hands and started pulling, the Triforce of Courage shining brightly from her wrist and very slowly pulled the Master Sword up until it was fully out of the pedestal.

As soon as Zelda pulled it out, she brought the blade close to her face, humble to receive such a sacred sword before raising the sword triumphantly. "Whoa..." Groose breathed.

"Master..."

"Huh?" Zelda wondered as the Master Sword started glowing blue before a blue spirit popped out of the sword. "Whoa!"

"You have pulled me out of the pedestal, I am your humble servant."

"Who are you?" Zelda asked.

"I am the Master Sword, but, the goddesses granted me a name before putting me into the sword. I am Fi."

Zelda smiled. "That's a pretty name."

"Thank you... I guess?" Fi tilted her head a little before getting closer to Zelda. "I will not let you down, master." She said before going back into the sword.

"Be patient with Fi." The Deku Tree said. "It's been a while since the last hero of Hyrule came to hold the sword, so she may come off to you in a bad way, but she is willing to fight to the end."

"I understand." Zelda nodded and then closed her eyes.

"You now have the Master Sword. Go back to Kakariko Village and wait for further instructions." Hylia instructed.

"Right." Zelda nodded and turned to Groose. "Wei heading back to Kakariko."

"Got it." Groose nodded as Zelda turned around to the Deku Tree.

"Farewell, Great Deku Tree. It's been an honor being her." She said, bowing humbly before heading back to Kakariko.

"Good luck, Zelda. You are going to need it."


Sorry about the wait! Had some personal stuff going on, but I'm alright!

Anyway, what's going on in the gaming world? *Sees that an analyst says that the PlayStation 5 will cost $800*

Oh... Oh my... I think... I think I'm gonna lie down for a few... take care!

EDIT: Apparently I got my goddesses mixed up without even realizing it. One of my friends pointed out that Zelda said that they were going to get the Power of Nayru next in the Lost Woods despite already having it. Whoops!